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A new audiobook recording of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" will soon be available with the perfect narrator — the scheming royal adviser Littlefinger from "Game of Thrones." Audible Inc., the world's largest seller of downloadable audiobooks, is getting ready to release a new version of the Chinese military strategist's advice featuring the narration of Aidan Gillen, who plays Lord Petyr Baelish on the HBO hit show. It will be available Tuesday. Gillen sees a connection between the book and TV show. "There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War,'" he wrote by email....

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